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I got to say this arm race is interesting to watch. I wonder if we'll reach a point where YT asks viewers to pass a captcha at the end of an ad to prove that t
by dudul 3y ago
I got to say this arm race is interesting to watch.
I wonder if we'll reach a point where YT asks viewers to pass a captcha at the end of an ad to prove that they watched it before getting back to their video.
- xattt 3y ago“Please proceed to purchase the item being advertised in order to continue watching.”
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- jfim 3y agoThey already do a poll thing where they ask "which of the following brands have you seen ads for recently?"
- tiagod 3y agoI had no idea, ublock is still doing a decent job... But I get those prompts on Waze when stopped at red lights and it's super annoying!
- janc_ 3y agoSounds like it might be illegal too...
- kenhwang 3y agoI built the industry first version of that product :) Fun way to screw with Google is to pick the worst answer (haven't seen any of the products, worse impression of the brand, etc). Advertisers are starting to try to measure advertising effectiveness (did the user actually see our ad and like our product) instead of easily game-able metrics (impressions, time on screen, click through). However, we found that poor ad experiences would result in poor metrics. Advertisers really don't like it when they spend millions of dollars in advertising to get a report that says "your target demographic is less likely to consider your product now after seeing your ads".
- hervature 3y agoQ: When Bob greeted Alice at the door, what purse did Alice have? A: Louis Vuitton
- ThrowawayTestr 3y agoDidn't Sony file a patent where you had to say the brand name after an ad?
- matheusmoreira 3y agoIt did. https://patents.google.com/patent/US8246454B2/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US8246454B2/en
- thiht 3y agoHopefully so that ad companies willing to do it are patent blocked
- LoganDark 3y ago> I wonder if we'll reach a point where YT asks viewers to pass a captcha at the end of an ad to prove that they watched it before getting back to their video. GPT-4 has entered the chat
- idonotknowwhy 3y agoIt still gets them wrong a lot of the time
- LoganDark 3y agoSo do people.
- professoretc 3y agoPlease drink verification can.
- socceroos 3y agoA classic. It was such a joke back in the SA/Slashdot days. I feel like we've come a long way...into the pit...since then.
- Prickle 3y agoA decent amount of that meme has come true. At least, in the sense of printer ink.
- globular-toast 3y agoWe were already heading there. Comedy is the most reliable source of truth there is.
- matheusmoreira 3y agoPlease verify you are "professoretc" by saying "Doritos™ Dew™ it right". https://patents.google.com/patent/US8246454B2/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US8246454B2/en
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- maxglute 3y agoI'm waiting for the end game where AI processes a native instance of the desktop and outputs a modified desktop according to criteria. Ads can be displayed and playing in the background but they get swapped by random gifs to fill time, dark ui patterns get identified and highlighted. Everything gets post processed sanitized on the final disaply layer with no interaction to the outside.
- AeroNotix 3y agoI'd rather just let the AI watch the video at that point and go play with my kids.
- jlokier 3y agoThat's not the endgame. Eventually each ad has an embedded AI that must be run to see the content after the ad. That AI evaluates whether there's a human who looks and behaves like you watching the ad. The endgame requires your AI to do a convincing impression of you to the ad AI, and to hide other signals that would reveal you doing something else, like the sound of a flushing toilet. When your AI is pushed by more advanced ad AI to be very convincing, it has to start purchasing things occasionally, just like a typical human. It occasionally buys the things in the ads, the way humans are expected to, to avoid revealing it's not you. This spirals out of control when your AI has to buy more things than a human would, because the ad AIs co-evolve with your AI to expect that. It won't be possible for an ordinary human to watch content unless they run a highly-evolved adblocker AI that buys enough of the things shown by the ad AIs to satisfy the ad company.
- zmgsabst 3y agoYou forgot the part where your AI evolves into a reseller of cheap ad-based products, which you order to satisfy the ad AI — bringing the entire AI ecosystem into a large MLM scheme.
- idonotknowwhy 3y agoHopefully the AIs learn to pass captchas soon. I've tested gpt4 and it still gets them wrong a lot of the time.
- corn-dog 3y agoIf they do I will improve my extension :7
- hot_gril 3y agoProbably the farthest it'll go is YouTube stitching ads into the videos and not serving all the bits in advance, kinda like cable TV. And the answer will be like a VHS or DVR, where you can only skip ads if you're ok waiting. Unless WEI becomes a thing.